Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Chhatak in Bangladesh

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Chhatak in Bangladesh. The epicenter was at a depth of 34.06 km (21 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 18/04/17 / 2017-04-18 14:01:34 / April 18, 2017 @ 2:01 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us10008n34. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008n34. The temblor was reported at 20:01:34 / 8:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 34.06 km, 91.6394° East, 25.0632° North.

Earthquake epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) from Sylhet (c. 237 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Shillong (c. 132 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Habiganj (c. 88 800 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Netrakona (c. 79 000 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Maulavi Bāzār (c. 57 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Karīmganj (c. 55 300 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Chhātak (c. 39 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Bangladesh (c. 156 118 000 pop), India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nongpoh, Dharmanagar, Netrakona (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 4 km NW of Chhatak, Bangladesh.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	91.6394° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	25.0632° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	34.06 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km NW of Chhatak, Bangladesh	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-04-18 14:01:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-03 14:18:18	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	312	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.538	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	129	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us10008n34	Id of event.
Event Code	10008n34	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008n34,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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